On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 10:33 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:33:34PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > (1) There seems to be a problem with either ghostscript or with its > > fonts. Courier fonts are displayed (both in gv and while printing) as > > MUCH TOO BIG. When printing, they overwrite other text making the > > output very hard to read. There's been a lot of posting at various > > places on the web about problems with courier vs. FC3, but no solutions. > > > > (2) Does anyone have either rpms of ghostscript-8.15, preferable for AMD > > 86-64 processors and a recent ghostscript font distribution (6.00 or > > above), or know a way to get ghostscript to handle courier fonts > > properly. > > The problem with fonts is in the urw-fonts as far as I know. See the > bugzilla report about it: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140584 Downgrading to urw-fonts-2.1-7 from FC-2 fixes this problem for me also. Maybe someone should renumber urw-fonts-2.1-7 as urw-fonts-2.2-7 and release them on the servers as an upgrade till the **real** upgrade is ready. BTW: Does anyone know anything about gs-8.15? Thanks very much: -- Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Berkeley Linux Team
